i’m tired of talking to students and people’s kids about their video game industry ambitions. i think from now on, i’ll just link them to this video and be done with it: (huge thanks to @cartoondutchie for helping me save my breath) Keep Reading

In 2009, the Vortex Game Competition used municipal and provincial Canadian funding to award its top prize to a Scottish game design team. We followed up on allegations made by CultureGET, a news blog that covered the event, and found that last year’s Vortex winners, Alex Quick and John Josephson, likely had nothing to do [...] Keep Reading

What do you do when you create a Flash portal filled with word games that fails to catch on? If you’re a savvy business person, you throw your entire company into a wood chipper and go down in a blaze of glory with a high-class prostitute and a motorbike bought on credit. But when you’re [...] Keep Reading

As a writing exercise, i’m using the Linkbait Generator to create titles for my blog posts. It’s LinkBait Tuesdays! Please enjoy responsibly. 1. GameCrush GameCrush is a service where you pay real-world money to play a game over the PC or Xbox Live with a PlayDate, who is usually a pretty girl. It’s essentially a [...] Keep Reading

Deciding whether to attend the Arcadian Renaissance event during Nuit Blanche this past Saturday night/Sunday morning was difficult for me. On the one hand, i am a Hand Eye Society member, some of my Toronto indie friends had video games in the show, and my company sponsored one of the cabinets. On the other hand, [...] Keep Reading